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Samuel Walters: Burning of the Ocean Monarch  wikidata:Q116251748 reasonator:Q116251748
Artist
Samuel Walters  (1811–1882)  wikidata:Q2218940
 
Alternative names
samuel walters
Descreeption British penter
Date of birth/death 1 November 1811 Edit this at Wikidata 5 Mairch 1882 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Lunnon Liverpuil
Work location
Authority control
artist QS:P170,Q2218940
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Burning of the Ocean Monarch
label QS:Len,"Burning of the Ocean Monarch"
Object type paintin
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Descreeption
Burning of Ocean Monarch off the Great Orme, 24 August 1848
Date 1850
date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions hicht: 41 in (104.1 cm); width: 52 in (132 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,41U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,52U218593
institution QS:P195,Q3373790
Current location
Salem, Massachusetts
Notes

Launched only the previous year, and described as one of the finest and largest ships ever built in the United States, the Ocean Monarch was a notable addition to Enoch Train's White Diamond Line of Boston-to-Liverpool sailing packets. Her total loss with almost half of those on board aroused enormous public sympathy on both sides of the Atlantic.

Walters painted at least five pictures showing successive stages of the conflagration and rescue attempts, this being the intermediate one, when only the foremast was still standing. First on the scene was the cutter yacht QUEEN OF THE OCEAN, commanded by Thomas Littledale, Commodore of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club, seen on the left in the painting, having launched her boat to pick up survivors. On the right is the Liverpool-built Brazilian naval steam frigate AFFONZO. Having started in the after cabin, the inferno has now reached the bow, with only a small group crowding forward of the foremast and out onto the bowsprit. The jib boom has given way, and some desperate survivors are using it as a means of escape. Women and children too terrified to make any such attempt were rescued by Frederick Jerome, a British crew member of the nearby American sailing packet NEW WORLD. Climbing aboard by means of the trailing gear and rigging, he succeeded in lowering them to within reach of the waiting rescuers.

Shortly afterwards the foremast fell, as portrayed in another painting by Samuel Walters. Within a few hours the OCEAN MONARCH burned right down to the waterline, and subsequently sank. The hulk remnants still lie on the seabed northeast of the Great Orme, the outline of which is visible just astern of the AFFONZO.
Source/Photographer Peabody Essex Museum

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